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Giving Thanks
On any given day in the District of Columbia, 12,000 children, families, and individuals are homeless and or in need of food; 82% of these families are headed by single women. As we approached the...
View ArticleA Call To Action: The People’s Hearing
If you haven’t yet heard, and you may not have, as this doesn’t seem to be getting a whole lot of play in the mainstream press, Mayor Fenty has proposed one last round of cuts to the 2011 fiscal year...
View ArticleShow Us The Green Rally: Demanding Quality and Affordable Child Care
By Ben Parisi, Empower DC Child Care Organizer On Thursday, March 17, 2011, St. Patrick’s Day, members of Empower DC’s Child Care for All Campaign and Save Our Safety Net DC came together to demand...
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March to Save Homeless Services
Homeless service advocates marching to the Wilson Building. (Photo by Roshan Ghimire). On May 18th, around 100 homeless people and homeless advocates gathered at the Community for Creative Non-Violence...
View ArticleDC Council Budget Vote Run Down
Cross-Posted from Save Our Safety Net If you haven’t already heard, we didn’t win the income tax brackets. But we did win one progressive revenue source which is helping to pay for our other collective...
View ArticleAusterity Measures in the District of Columbia
Not so much written by the Coordinator, as posted by the Coordinator. This piece was actually written by Ben Parisi of Empower DC On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, the DC Council voted on a last-minute...
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